To Seize Or To Give?

Jiajun Li

Section A02

Reading Reflection #1

In response to: Nothing Is More Important Than Thinking Dialectically

                In Nothing Is More Important Than Thinking Dialectically, one crucial point is that what political ideology should the struggler base upon during the process when they tried to seize political power. The example of Zapatistas Revolution questioned the very basic doctrine of  a revolution by the oppressed: is the revolution supposed to bring back justice or just simply to seize the power the oppressed should have? Justice, in the case of Zapatistas, conceptualized the participatory democracy to all racial communities. The greatest part of this revolution is not how Zapatistas seized their power, but how Zapatistas share the power they seized to all the racial minorities.

                To seize the political power through revolution is not easy, to share the power is even harder. Nothing Is More Important Than Thinking Dialectically reminds me of something in the US history. Few leaders could achieve this, but when they did, they made their names in the history. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, the most memorial part of their works was not just to bring democracy to the newly-found country, but to defend the civil rights for civilians to keep and bear arms, to share the political rights to those who were oppressed, opposed, and those who were subjected as enemies.

               

Questions: How is "thinking dialectically" applied to Asian struggles?